Andy Patrizio

Seagate is warning customers of its external hard drives that their bare drive may not be so bare after all — it might have a Trojan hidden on it. The infection is relatively harmless, unless you play “World of Warcraft,” and still very rare. Only 1,800 machines were infected. But it does raise the issue […]

It’s lean days for makers of personal digital assistants (PDAs), as IDC has reported the fifteenth consecutive quarter of decline in shipments, with the quarterly market now under one million devices total. If there is an upside, it’s that the numbers are probably bottoming out. According to IDC’s Worldwide Handheld QView, vendors shipped 728,894 handheld […]

SAN FRANCISCO — The merger of UC4 Software and AppWorx has just closed, but attendees at Oracle OpenWorld here learned that it is already offering gains for customers. The union combines UC4’s workload automation technology with AppWorx’s application interface technology, allowing Oracle and non-Oracle customers to execute more automations based on time, conditions and results. […]

Microsoft’s monthly patch cycle is about as slow as the company can get while still having a Patch Tuesday. It released two, count ’em, two fixes today, one rated Critical, the most severe kind of fix, and one rated as Important, considered the least severe. The one Critical fix, MS07-061, addresses a publicly reported vulnerability […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Just two months ago at the Intel Developer Forum, CEO Paul Otellini could only tell the assembled how great its new Penryn chip design was going to be, but still had to play a few cards close to his chest in terms of specifics. Today, with Penryn now out and 12 new […]

With Office becoming an ever-increasing target for malware writers, Microsoft is offering a tool and guidance to help improve the security of Office 2007 and 2003. The Office 2007 Security Guide will be posted on Microsoft’s TechEd site on Tuesday and formally introduced at the Microsoft TechEd conference this week in Barcelona, Spain. The guide […]

The TOP500 Supercomputer list is out and once again, IBM has bragging rights. Big Blue not only tops the list, it pretty much owns it, with 232 of the 500 computers on the list. The TOP500 list is compiled and published twice per year, in June and November, by supercomputing experts in the U.S. and […]

Netronome Systems has struck a deal with Intel to take over the development of Intel’s high-speed networking processors, thereby ensuring continued development of chips that otherwise faced a dead end. Netronome, which develops chips, cards and systems to conduct deep-packet inspections of flow text and encrypted communications over high-speed networks, will build extensions into Intel’s […]

Dell is announcing a refresh to its server line that offers some major changes to more than just the CPU. The server launch is taking place with Oracle OpenWorld as the backdrop and Intel’s concurrent but unrelated Penryn launch. As part of its server refresh, Dell is changing its modeling and numbering scheme. Servers now […]

Sun Microsystems today announced the availability and some additional offerings for its high performance computing (HPC) product line. The news, issued at the Supercomputing 2007 conference in Reno, Nevada, builds on the previously announced Constellation HPC clustering. Sun announced Constellation back in June. Constellation is a three-pronged petaflop-capable system consisting of ultra-dense blades, Sun’s X4500 […]

Intel on Monday will begin shipping its Penryn line of processors to computer makers, who are all expected to announce system availability as well. On the outside, Penryn isn’t a huge change to the Core 2/Xeon line of desktop and server processors, but underneath it all, it’s a huge change for Intel. For starters, it […]

The MySpace pages for Grammy-winning R&B singer Alicia Keys and some European musicians were hacked on Thursday by an unknown group who tried to trick unwary visitors into installing a rootkit, according to a security expert. Roger Thompson, chief technology officer of Exploit Prevention Labs (XPL), said the issue was brought to the company’s attention […]